Jewel

You have a different crowd every night, so you should do a different show to suit them. I tailor the show to their mood.

The show is different every night, because I never write a setlist.

Amazingly, I've been sort of an anomaly in the music industry. I feel like I've been able to exist as kind of a throwback artist.

There are a lot of things about fame that are not conducive to being curious. It's been important for me to cloister myself off.

Without a band, I'm much more free to improvise.

Like every girl, I felt amazing pressure to look like the popular girls, but no one told me the popular girls were all air brushed in magazines.

I guess I'm a Gemini through and through, but I'm mercurial. I get bored doing the same things.

If someone is willing to help you understand your own worth when you're vulnerable, that's a very touching thing. It makes you want to help other people.

For now I'm just enjoying being a mom. I don't want to be more famous and more rich. I want to be a good mom.

I was raised really poor and so was my husband.

I didn't mean to be a songwriter; I just was writing for fun, you have all day to do it. I was homeless so that's all I had to do.

I'm half alive but I feel mostly dead.